Walker & Company, a division of Bloomsbury USA, has a publishing list that reflects varied personal tastes and publishing opportunities. History has always been a cornerstone of our program. Dava Sobel's Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, and, most recently, Ross King's Judgment of Paris were New York Times bestsellers, while Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, King's Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Brunelleschi's Dome, Laura M. Mac Donald's Curse of the Narrows, and Barnet Schecter's The Devil's Own Work, among many others, have appeared in our catalogs.

Walker's publisher, George Gibson, is drawn to science writing as well. The prolific Isaac Asimov published more books with Walker than with any other publisher, and we now enjoy the talents of science writers whose skills bring the history of science and the natural world alive-such as Diana Preston (Before The Fallout),Mark Essig (Edison & The Electric Chair) , Simon Singh (Fermat's Enigma), Chet Raymo (Walking Zero and Climbing Brandon) and, most recently, Alan Hirshfeld (The Electric Life of Michael Faraday.)

Walker Books for Young Readers has been a central part of the company for some 40 years. Isaac Asimov was as skilled in writing for young readers as for older ones-his dozens of titles can still be found in libraries across the country-and over the years we have published many luminaries of children's publishing, among them Barbara Cooney, Tomie de Paola, Michael McCurdy, and Pat and Fred McKissack, whose Long Hard Journey won the Coretta Scott King Award.

In February 2008, we will publish Valentine Surprise, a book by Corinne Demas and illustrated by R. W Alley<./a>

We hope the books you will find on this site, or in our catalog, will intrigue, challenge, surprise, or otherwise engage you. They are available at independent, chain, and specialty bookstores across the United States, as well as in a variety of ways on the Internet.